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Am ai,rnrliye article ou The south
err Gateway Of Tie AIcghauir,'
Chattanooga, 'renu.). 10y Edmund .
Kirke. The vltrr ludicule. the re-,
markaAle natural advantages which |
have made this site the home If three
successive races, with perhaps ar un.
broken existence, since the lire of the
Mound builders. Here are traces Of
large city, which existed far back in
the twilight ages, before Frey Was
founded. rhose pre- historic people
built their city here for the same Iea
son that the Cherokee, made it
stronghold and the modern engineer
has laid here The tracks of eight inn
portant railrays, hecause it commands
the only great highway between the
northeast and the southwest. Besides
the exceptional conformation of noun.
tains and river, Chattanooga is dis.
tingnished by extremely rich and ac>
cessible deposits of iron ore and coal,
which explain the miraculous progress
of this city within recent years, and
warrant the authors conclusion that
ut is written in these hills Of iron,
these mountains of coal, aud these
forests of timber that Chattanooga
has great future. In the very ia.
ture of things it cannot he many earS
before it is the metropolis of the cen,
trial south, and the iron emporium OF
the whole country" Howard Pyle
. illustrates two thrilling episodes of
, Revolutionary time, and ten drawings
{ by Harry Fem depist the picturesque
J features of the place.
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" The Downfall of The commune K. /
" Washhurne, x-Minister to France
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